ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Miami-Dade Sangakkara officials hold saves Sri Lanka talks with QA from follow-on Business | 17 Sport | 25 Sunday 15 June 2014 • 17 Sha’baan 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6097 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 15pc rise in Sponsorship travellers from Qatar to Brazil DOHA: The travel industry has reported 12 to 15 percent reforms on increase in the number of people travelling from Qatar to Brazil this season spurred by the FIFA World Cup in Sao Paulo. Quoting a senior official of the travel agents committee at the track: Qatar Qatar Chamber, a local Arabic daily reported yesterday that a number of Qatari businessmen had Geneva meet discusses report on Qatar obtained visas to travel to Brazil. The easy procedures to obtain DOHA: Qatar told a meeting of operative through the Ministry of an entry visa to Brazil and the the UN Human Rights Council the Interior,” he said. Regarding availability of direct flights from (UNHRC) in Geneva yesterday the employment contract, he said Doha to Sao Paulo have further that it is going ahead with prep- that it will govern the legal rela- boosted this trend, said the daily. arations to introduce “sweeping tionship between the worker and One travel agent has put the reforms” in the country’s spon- the employer and the contract growth in the number of travel- sorship and exit permit system. shall be officially endorsed. lers at 15 percent. Addressing the 26th session of “In the case that the contract Travel agencies have come out the Council, Director of the Human is concluded according to a fixed with attractive tour packages to Rights Department at the Foreign term, the employee shall have the cash in on the increased interest Ministry Sheikh Khalid bin Jassim right to move, after the end of the among citizens in the World Cup. Al Thani said the “state is consid- period specified in the contract, Costa Rica defender Oscar Duarte (left) heads the ball past Uruguay’s goalkeeper Fernando Muslera to score his They are available at prices rang- ering a new draft law based on to any party he opts to work with team’s second goal during a Group D football match at the Castelao Stadium in Fortaleza, Brazil yesterday. Costa ing from QR9,000 to QR12,000 work contracts under the name without the need for employer’s Rica won 3-1. In an earlier game, Colombia shrugged off the absence through injury of star striker Radamel Falcao which many citizens consider ‘the law of entry and residence of consent, but if the contract is to hammer Greece 3-0 in Group C. See also pages 26, 27 & 28 affordable, said the daily. expatriates in Qatar”. indefinite, the employee can move THE PENINSULA The session discussed the report to another job after five years presented by Special Rapporteur from the date of the contract on the human rights of migrants without the need for the employ- Francois Crepeau and his last visit er’s consent,” said Al Thani. to Qatar in 2013 to study the labour He said Qatar will introduce a conditions in the country. comprehensive set of measures Crepeau in his report has urged within the Qatari labour law to US sends aircraft carrier to help Iraq Qatar to review the sponsorship allow for the implementation of and exit permit system and rec- the new reform mechanisms. BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON: the North Arabian Sea and ear- Kirby described the deployment reporters, according to Agence ommended that expatriate workers On behalf of Qatar, he expressed The US is sending an aircraft lier this year were used in the as increasing Obama’s martial France Presse. Iraqi officials told be given the right to form trade thanks to the UN Special carrier and two guided missile Mediterranean following Russia’s flexibility “should military options the Guardian yesterday that Iran unions. The reported included 14 Rapporteur on the human rights of ships into the Gulf, bolstering sea invasion of Ukraine. The Bush’s be required to protect American had sent 2,000 advance troops recommendation to protect the migrants, for his report on his visit and air power before a possible air wing includes four squad- lives, citizens and interests in across the border to help the Shia rights of migrant workers in Qatar. to the state included in the docu- US strike on the jihadist army in rons flying F/A-18 Super Hornet Iraq”, rather than signalling an government of Iraq defend itself “The State of Qatar recently ment A/HRC/26/35/Add.1, valuing Iraq in the coming days. fighter jets, one squadron flying imminent strike. after the Iraqi army ran from announced that it is intending to the objectivity, professionalism, Defence Secretary Chuck EA-18 Growler jammer and elec- While Iran has in the past har- ISIL in Mosul this week. take sweeping reforms to provide transparency and non-selectivity Hagel ordered the USS George tronic-attack planes, and other assed US ships moving into the Obama’s contemplation of air further promotion and protection that characterised the report. HW Bush into the Gulf yester- maritime helicopters and early- Gulf, its President, Hassan Rowhani, strikes against ISIL creates the to the rights of migrant workers,” Addressing the interactive ses- day, a day after President Barack warning planes. yesterday indicated openness to prospect of US air power bolster- said Al Thani. sion, Crepeau praised big Qatari Obama indicated he would soon Rear Admiral John Kirby, the working alongside his country’s ing Iranian ground operations, an He explained that Qatar is con- corporations for the high stand- decide on air strikes against the Pentagon press secretary, said the decades-old adversary, signalling an awkward one given the animosity sidering the cancellation of the ards of living they provide to their Islamic State of Iraq and the Bush would be accompanied by alignment of interests in protecting the militaries of the two nations, current exit permit system which workers. He noted that the situ- Levant (ISIL), whose seizure of the guided-missile cruiser USS their mutual Iraqi partner. which are currently engaged in requires the employer’s approval ation in Qatar is unique in view Sunni Iraqi cities has violently Philippine Sea and the guided- “If we see that the United negotiations over Iran’s nuclear for the departure of the employee. of the high ratio of expatriates to upended the region. missile destroyer USS Truxton. States takes action against ter- programme, have long felt for “The system is to be replaced by citizens. THE PENINSULA The 103,000-tonne warship and The ships are expected to arrive rorist groups in Iraq, then one each other. THE GUARDIAN a new automated system to be Continued on page 5 its air wing had been patrolling in the Gulf this evening. can think about it,” Rouhani told See also page 6 Israeli PM: Three Qatar 2022 says corruption teens kidnapped reports a ‘deliberate attack’ by Palestinians DOHA: Qatar’s 2022 World Cup chiefs said yesterday that reports JERUSALEM: Israel holds the of corruption were a deliberate bid to undermine a FIFA inquiry Palestinian Authority responsi- into their bid. A statement released by Qatar’s Supreme Committee ble for the safe return of three for 2022 said the “leaks” were orchestrated, but did not say who by. teenagers kidnapped in the West The timing of the release of these allegations is no accident,” said Bank by a “terror organisa- the statement, highlighting that the reports coincided with meet- tion,” Prime Minister Benjamin ings between Qatar officials and FIFA investigation chief Michael Netanyahu said yesterday. Garcia. “It should be clear that these leaks are not an attempt to “Our young people have been shine light on the 2018/2022 bidding process. They are, instead, kidnapped by a terror organi- a flagrant attempt to prejudice an ongoing independent investiga- sation... there is no doubt about tion,” said the Qatar chiefs. that,” Netanyahu told reporters “While Qatar’s bid committee has honoured Mr Garcia’s request in Tel Aviv as a massive manhunt to let the process run its course, our right to a fair hearing has been for the three youngsters entered compromised by certain parties trying to influence Mr Garcia’s inves- its third night. tigation,” said the statement. Garcia is due to hand in his report to a The youngsters, one of whom FIFA adjudicatory chamber in July. FIFA President Sepp Blatter said also holds a US passport, are no decision on action will be taken before September or October. The believed to have been snatched Qatar chiefs insisted they have “nothing to hide.” “We have fully co- on Thursday night from the Gush operated in a completely open and transparent manner with FIFA’s Etzion settlement bloc between independent ethics committee investigation,” they added. AFP Bethlehem and Hebron, report- Pro-Russian militants look through the debris of an IL-76 Ukrainian military transporter which was taken down by edly while hitchhiking. They were pro-Russian rebels early yesterday, on the outskirts of Lugansk. studying at two Jewish seminar- Fertility rate among women ies in settlements in the southern West Bank. Their disappearance in Qatar falls: Report has prompted a huge search by Ukraine plane shot down, 49 killed the army and border police. DOHA: Fertility rate among women in Qatar has fallen signifi- Netanyahu said he placed KIEV: Pro-Russian separatists city of Luhansk, a centre of the sloping wheat field where the cantly over the past few years, shows data of the Ministry of responsibility for their safe return shot down an army transport rebellion against central rule that plane came down overnight near Development Planning and Statistics.